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Due to many requests coming from our friends, the Totus Tuus Tour in Pro-Life Philippines is extended, from November 26 until December 12,2014This is your chance to venerate the sacred relics of St. John Paul II and other Saints, and to be blessed by God through their intercession.…

The relics will then be kept from the public for 5 years, until we all celebrate the 100 years anniversary of John Paul II’s birth.
Come and experience this rare opportunity!

We are open everyday, Mondays to Saturdays (Nov. 26 – Dec. 12, 2014) Veneration hours are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Our address is 70 Main Horseshoe Drive, Horseshoe Village, Quezon City.
( It is very near Robinson’s Magnolia and walking distance from Gilmore Station at the LRT. )

THE FOLLOWING RELICS WILL BE EXPOSED FOR VENERATION From Nov. 26- Dec. 12,2014

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I’ve been reading some posts lately on the merits of the TLM over the Novus Ordo and I just want to offer my two cents worth so to speak.

1) I don’t think that there should be a contest between the Novus Ordo and the TLM. The liturgy of the eucharist has undergone changes throughout the centuries and comparing alleged virtues of one order over another is simply not absolutely necessary. Some comparisons are made citing abuses committed by some priests while celebrating the Novus Ordo. Comparisons, if ever, have to be between the normal celebrations of both orders and not between an aberration of the Novus Ordo as against the TLM (although in my opinion, aberrations in the TLM are close to impossible given the nature of the TLM). Regarding abuses committed in the liturgy, then Cardinal Ratzinger says:

“In the place of liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy. We abandoned the organic, living process of growth and development over the centuries and replaced it – as in a manufacturing process – with a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product.”

There are abuses, yes, and we have to address this issue. But the abuses are exceptions, not the norm. I believe that most priests still follow the norm.

2) Adherents of the TLM should also accept that there is necessary development in the liturgy as proclaimed by Sacrosanctum Concilium, which is a constitution and is therefore binding to all Catholics. It says:

The rite of the Mass is to be revised in such a way that the intrinsic nature and purpose of its several parts, as also the connection between them, may be more clearly manifested, and that devout and active participation by the faithful may be more easily achieved.
For this purpose the rites are to be simplified, due care being taken to preserve their substance; elements which, with the passage of time, came to be duplicated, or were added with but little advantage, are now to be discarded; other elements which have suffered injury through accidents of history are now to be restored to the vigor which they had in the days of the holy Fathers, as may seem useful or necessary.

-Sancrosanctum Concilium #50

and then;

“There is no contradiction between the two editions of the Roman Missal. In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture.”

-Pope Benedict XVI, Letter to Bishops on the occasion of Summorum Pontificum

and then;

“This work was undertaken in accordance with the conciliar principles of fidelity to tradition and openness to legitimate development, and so it is possible to say that the reform of the Liturgy is strictly traditional and ‘in accordance with the ancient usage of the holy Fathers’.”

-St. John Paul II, Vicesimus quintus annus

There is development and evolution in liturgy. A synchronic study of the Eucharist would confirm this. The circumstances of the community determine such development and changes in the liturgy. We remember Jesus saying: The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

3) As things stand, the Church now allows the use of the Novus Ordo (which is the Ordinary) and the TLM. Any comparison or criticism of one or the other is academic and disruptive of church unity. We may use both so there should be no more occasion for criticism. It is a matter of personal preference. I acknowledge that there are Catholics who love the TLM and we have to take care of them and as much as we are able, provide for their spiritual needs. Based on my pastoral experience though, I can see that the majority of Catholics now prefer the Novus Ordo. I tried a soft opening of the latin mass in our chapel by celebrating the Novus Ordo in latin. The assembly felt left out because they cannot follow the Mass in latin. I love celebrating the Novus Ordo in latin, but I love the people more so I celebrate in english or in the vernacular

I think that Catholics must have mutual respect for each other and labeling our fellow Catholics ‘Novus Ordo Sectarian’ or ‘Ultra-traditionalist’ is not Christian or Catholic (the word Catholic means Universal). We must refrain from hurting each other over the Mass! Let us respect the personal preference (as allowed by the Church) of the individual Catholic and stop calling each other names. After all, Jesus Christ probably celebrated the first Mass (the institutional moment) either in Aramaic or Hebrew.

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ANTIPOLO City, Nov. 18, 2014—Jovi Atanacio testifies that it is possible to be a faithful son of the Church and to be a person with same-sex attraction (SSA), sharing how ultimately, the faith shows homosexuals how to truly love.

“This is my cross …I may be attracted to males … but I love God more,” he said, noting how God through the Church invites all to true love.

During his spare time, Jovi Atanacio helps promote the devotion to Mary Mediatrix of All Grace. (Photo from Atanacio’s Facebook account)

While admitting to SSA, having been a former moderator for an after call community of people with SSA, Atanacio has decided to remain celibate, and agrees with the Catholic position on people with same sex attraction that invites all to love, including homosexuals.

“I am free … I made the decision myself to follow and conform to God’s will and what the Church teaches … I forego of the worldly lifestyle,” he declared, confessing how years back, he was sexually promiscuous with various “casual hook ups”.

Homosexuals called to love

Atanacio bemoaned pro-LGBT rights camps often gloss over the fact that the Church has consistently enjoined everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, to love.

“As surprising as it may sound, the Church today does not forbid people who experience same-sex attractions to love one another,” shared Atanacio.

He attests that the Church seems to be the only institution that stresses love for members of the LGBT community.

“We are made to love and be loved … And our lives mean nothing if we don’t experience it,” he added.

Atanacio, one of the many actively engaged in the promotion of the devotion to Lipa’s Mary, Mediatrix of All-Grace, thinks the LGBT sector is asking too much when it expects the Church to change its stance on homosexuality.

“The LGBT wants the Church to just let them be … or allow them and not call the [homosexual] acts sinful …which will never be acceptable,” he noted.

“They keep on trumpeting pride in being gays … But they’re quick to blame others when HIV cases run high, supposedly because they’re too embarrassed to buy condoms,” he added.

True love

According to him, while many members of the same sex desire union with their romantic partners because of love, Atanacio believes true love desires more than just physical and emotional union.

“It wishes the good of the other. It wishes the good of the other person, encouraging him or her to embrace the virtue of chastity,” he explained.

He clarified, however, that chastity does not mean turning one’s back on love, pointing out it is but a profound and courageous expression of that same love.

Single and chaste, Atanacio, who also maintains the Facebook group “Wanted: Filipino Saints”, underscored the need to grow in the understanding of what love really means.

“If two members of the same sex profess love for each other, they will strive to do what is best for one other. They will encourage one another to identify themselves as beloved children of God who happen to experience same-sex attractions, rather than people who are defined by their sexual urges and happen to believe in God,” he explained, citing a Chastity Project article. (Raymond A. Sebastián)

The church in the first place promotes an ecumenical dialogue, that is, with churches and ecclesial communities which profess faith in Christ, the Son of God and only savior. She also promotes dialogue with the other communities of people who are seeking God and wish to have a relationship of communion with him.

At the basis of this dialogue with the other churches and Christian communities and with the other religions, and as a condition of her credibility and effectiveness, there must be a sincere effort of permanent and renewed dialogue within the Catholic Church herself. She is aware that, by her nature, she is the sacrament of the universal communion of charity; but she is equally aware of the tensions within her, tensions which risk becoming factors of division.

In order to overcome conflicts and to ensure that normal tensions do not prove harmful to the unity of the church, we must all apply to ourselves the word of God; we must relinquish our own subjective views and seek the truth where it is to be found, namely in the divine word itself and in the authentic interpretation of that word provided by the magisterium of the church. In this light, listening to one another, respect, refraining from all hasty judgments, patience, the ability to avoid subordinating the faith which unites to the opinions, fashions and ideological choices which divide-these are all qualities of a dialogue within the church which must be persevering, open and sincere. Obviously dialogue would not have these qualities and would not become a factor of reconciliation if the magisterium were not heeded and accepted.

-Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, #25

Dialogue within the Catholic Church herself. Listening to one another, respect, refraining from all hasty judgments, patien, the ability to avoid subordinating the faith which unites to the opinions, fashions and ideological choices which divide-these are all qualities of a dialogue within the church which must be persevering, open and sincere.

All men are called to be part of this catholic unity of the people of God which in promoting universal peace presages it. And there belong to or are related to it in various ways, the Catholic faithful, all who believe in Christ, and indeed the whole of mankind, for all men are called by the grace of God to salvation. – Lumen Gentium #13